1st! I have lots of these kinds of cards! 😂🎉😊 I will have to start doing error videos! Hickey! Is the phrase! 🔥 Big thanks for this informative definitions! ❤
Ornithopter seriously killed a lot of people who weren't expecting it! 😂 1. Play Ornithopter turn 1 and pump it with enchantments as fast as possible. Ornithopter with Unholy Strength was a 2/2 flyer on turn 1, and you could enchant it with something else on turn 2 so that it would be bigger before swinging for the first time. Giant Growth, Berserk, Giant Strength, Blood Lust, Unstable Mutation, etc. Web or Holy Strength could be played to help get the Ornithopter out of Lightning Bolt range. Removal wasn't everywhere back then. Lightning Bolt and Disenchant were the typical threats. Later there was a card called Grave Servitude, which made the Ornithopter "Black" while pumping it, and that made it impervious to most black removal spells. Having four to six other 0 cost creatures was important for consistency, Kobolds or Phyrexian Walker (there's additional options now). 1 cost flyers like Scryb Sprites or Flying Men were also ok. It was definitely a glass cannon, it either worked perfectly or blew up in your face. It was fast and consistent though, so your opponent didn't have much time to respond. If they happened to draw removal in the first few turns, you were probably dead in the water, unless you got lucky with a Lightning Bolt or Fireball to finish them off. 2. Atog with a bunch of 0 cost artifacts (Ornithopter, Moxes, Fountain of Youth, etc.) is also pretty good. Ankh of Mishra, Black Vise, The Rack are other low cost cards that can get some damage in and be eaten by Atog. Lightning Bolt, Berserk 3. Closer to the time this rule booklet was printed, we had Enduring Renewal in Ice Age. Ornithopter, Enduring Renewal, Ashnod's Altar created infinite mana. You could use any 0 cost creature like the Kobolds, but Ornithopter was popular. You could also use other sacrifice outlets to get different effects. Later people used Goblin Bombardment instead of Ashnod's Altar. I think it was the 5th Edition rule booklet glossary which said, Infinite Loop: see Enduring Renewal Enduring Renewal: see Ornithopter Ornithopter: see Ashnod's Altar Ashnod's Alter: see Infinite Loop Back then there wasn't any way to know what the cards did unless you owned them, but it was like an Easter egg hidden in the rules.
@@TavisKingsChannel Aha! Pithy inside joke it is! I was trying to think of some real life disaster with a flying machine, but clearly I'm thinking in too modern and hypersensitive a way. Oh yes, I can claim to have given a few Ornithopters Unstable Mutations back in the day.
You have always been a source of useful informative videos. MTG doesn't deserve you
1st! I have lots of these kinds of cards! 😂🎉😊
I will have to start doing error videos! Hickey! Is the phrase! 🔥
Big thanks for this informative definitions! ❤
So amazing i feel like i'm in school everytime i 'm watching any of your video and I love it,thank you Tavis!!!!!
Thank you for this video! I got a revised Underground Sea with a print hickey and was wondering what it was.
Glad you found the video. 😁
I have the Spire Owl one in the first few seconds of the vid
Just a question: did you ever work in the printing industry or with the printing machines? Or just a hobby?
Just a hobby.
Uhhhhh, "Our condolences to everyone who has been killed by an ornithopter?" Is this real or a pithy inside joke?
Ornithopter seriously killed a lot of people who weren't expecting it! 😂
1. Play Ornithopter turn 1 and pump it with enchantments as fast as possible. Ornithopter with Unholy Strength was a 2/2 flyer on turn 1, and you could enchant it with something else on turn 2 so that it would be bigger before swinging for the first time. Giant Growth, Berserk, Giant Strength, Blood Lust, Unstable Mutation, etc. Web or Holy Strength could be played to help get the Ornithopter out of Lightning Bolt range. Removal wasn't everywhere back then. Lightning Bolt and Disenchant were the typical threats. Later there was a card called Grave Servitude, which made the Ornithopter "Black" while pumping it, and that made it impervious to most black removal spells. Having four to six other 0 cost creatures was important for consistency, Kobolds or Phyrexian Walker (there's additional options now). 1 cost flyers like Scryb Sprites or Flying Men were also ok.
It was definitely a glass cannon, it either worked perfectly or blew up in your face. It was fast and consistent though, so your opponent didn't have much time to respond. If they happened to draw removal in the first few turns, you were probably dead in the water, unless you got lucky with a Lightning Bolt or Fireball to finish them off.
2. Atog with a bunch of 0 cost artifacts (Ornithopter, Moxes, Fountain of Youth, etc.) is also pretty good. Ankh of Mishra, Black Vise, The Rack are other low cost cards that can get some damage in and be eaten by Atog. Lightning Bolt, Berserk
3. Closer to the time this rule booklet was printed, we had Enduring Renewal in Ice Age. Ornithopter, Enduring Renewal, Ashnod's Altar created infinite mana.
You could use any 0 cost creature like the Kobolds, but Ornithopter was popular. You could also use other sacrifice outlets to get different effects. Later people used Goblin Bombardment instead of Ashnod's Altar.
I think it was the 5th Edition rule booklet glossary which said,
Infinite Loop: see Enduring Renewal
Enduring Renewal: see Ornithopter
Ornithopter: see Ashnod's Altar
Ashnod's Alter: see Infinite Loop
Back then there wasn't any way to know what the cards did unless you owned them, but it was like an Easter egg hidden in the rules.
@@TavisKingsChannel Aha! Pithy inside joke it is! I was trying to think of some real life disaster with a flying machine, but clearly I'm thinking in too modern and hypersensitive a way.
Oh yes, I can claim to have given a few Ornithopters Unstable Mutations back in the day.
0:15 I think he needs to see a doctor? He might have shingles.